Alastair Walker

Bishop Street Underwriters acquires Conifer Insurance Services, expanding its multiline MGA platform into commercial lines.

This piece is by Alisdair McLaughlin, Technical Solutions Architect at BlueVoyant, and it looks at the importance of getting your cyber incident reporting right under the NIS2 regs; The new NIS2 directive is designed to strengthen [...]

Stay informed about the latest insurance fraud trends. Allianz UK's fraud teams have detected an increase in noise-induced hearing loss and fake claims.

Here’s the latest partnership news from Sapiens; Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, announces a partnership with Addresscloud, a cloud-based location intelligence provider, to empower insurers with enhanced capabilities to understand geographic risk and make more informed underwriting decisions with access to global geospatial datasets.

There aren’t many firms in the insurance sector that are totally owned by their employees, but Aventum is one of them. Doing quite well too, here’s the word;

Asurion Europe has teamed up with EssilorLuxottica to offer a new insurance service for the eyewear company through the SunLove Protection Plan. The policy provides worldwide protection for sunglasses against accidental damage, chipped or broken frames, scratched or cracked lenses, and normal wear and tear.

Davies has announced it has signed a deal to purchase the trade and assets of Minuteman Adjusters (“Minuteman”), a third-party administrator serving global insurance carriers and Lloyd’s syndicate insurers across the U.S. Here are the details FYI;

The new Labour government wants to build lots of newbuild housing over the next five years. Much of that will be on agricultural, green belt land. Some of that will be prone to flooding, which is why it’s often described as marginal by farmers who try to grow crops on that land, so it’s often used for grazing livestock during spring and summer. But if large 1000-1500 dwelling housing estates are built, then who will insure those social housing schemes against flood risk?

A former North East Lincolnshire business man has plead guilty to selling illegal vapes. Sukhdev Singh Tattla, 34, of Beverley Close, Holton-Le-Clay, appeared at Grimsby Magistrates Court on Monday, 19 August, after North East Lincolnshire Council’s Trading Standards team discovered hundreds of illegal vapes during an inspection in October last year. The team visited Tattla’s former Go Local store on Thrunscoe Road, Cleethorpes, discovering 847 illegal vapes. The items were deemed to breach the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations of 2016.

NFP, an Aon company and leading property and casualty (P&C) broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement plan advisor, has announced the acquisition of Scott Litman Insurance Agency (SLIA), a P&C insurance broker specializing in habitational risk located in Calabasas, California. Scott Litman, president of SLIA, will join NFP as a senior vice president and report to Ed Kurowski, managing director, West region P&C.